Today was another 4.30am start to get back on the very slow boat to the Thai border.
Torches needed to find our way back to the boat as it was pitch black. 12 hours on the boat and again alot of sleeping, music listened to, cards played at which our local guide Yang kicked our asses. Off the boat and on to a tuktuk to take us to the border, 10 of us in there including 1 hanging off the back and Mike says "I don't think this is going to have the power to move" and sure enough half way up the first hill the engine cut out and it started rolling back down the hill and only stopped by some alot of locals jumping behind it. Eventually made it to the top because half of us got out and walked. After 10 mins we hear a bang and we pull over to find a tyre had blown. An F1 style tyre change by the driver and we set off again.
A relatively smooth transit through the border although some got stung for paying double, no idea why.
A short drive to our hotel in the border town of Chiang Khong, nothing much to do here but as we've had 2 very hot and sweaty days everyone was just in the mood to lounge by the pool. So pretty much that's what we did, was awesome fun messing around in the pool. I stayed in the pool for 5 hours until midnight which was probably a bad idea as my hands actually hurt they had dried out so much. Great fun though.
You've certainly had some challenging travel
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